Cultural legacies of Old Norse literature: new perspectives An exciting new collection of essays exploring the startling variety of transformations of Old Norse texts, and their legacy in later literary cultures. The „Viking Age“ of medieval Scandinavia, with its heathen … Weiterlesen
Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda: A multifactorial analysis of linguistic features This book offers new dating of the poems of the Old Norse Poetic Edda, perhaps our best sources about the mythology and legends of the Viking Age. This … Weiterlesen
Historical Lacunae and Poetic Space: A Creative Approach to Old Norse Poetry and Poetics This book explores the nature of poetic reading using a creative approach to understanding Old Norse poetry. It considers lacunae in the history, criticism and scholarly … Weiterlesen
Unwanted: Neglected Approaches, Characters, and Texts in Old Norse-Icelandic Saga Studies The 9 essays collected in this volume are the result of a workshop for international doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in Old Norse-Icelandic Saga Studies held at the Institute for … Weiterlesen
Discourse in Old Norse literature An examination of what dialogues and direct speech in Old Norse literature can convey and mean, beyond their immediate face-value. The vast and diverse corpus of Old Norse literature preserves the language spoken not only … Weiterlesen
Narrative in the Icelandic family saga: meanings of time in Old Norse literature Representative of a unique literary genre and composed in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Icelandic Family Sagas rank among some of the world’s greatest literature. Here, … Weiterlesen
Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary HistoryHow did Nordic culture become associated with the fuzzy brand “cool”, as by default? In Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History twenty-one scholars in collaboration question the seemingly natural fit between “Nordic” and “Cool” by … Weiterlesen
Diebstahl und Raub in den Isländersagas: Einfallstore in die norröne Erzähl- und VorstellungsweltDiebstahl und Raub sind ebenso wie Gaben reziproke Handlungen mit vielfältigen literarischen Einsatzmöglichkeiten. Obwohl widerrechtliche Aneignungen schon auf den ersten Blick zu den zentralen Themen einer ›Wikingerliteratur‹ zählen, … Weiterlesen
Margins, monsters, deviants: alterities in old Norse literature and cultureThis anthology explores depictions of alterity, monstrosity and deviation in medieval Icelandic literature, Scandinavian history, and beyond. The authors explore issues of identity, genre, character and text and the interplay between … Weiterlesen
Unter dem Motto „A gentle wander through the Viking world“ bloggt Judith Jesch vom Centre for the Study of the Viking Age der Uni Nottingham über alles rund um das Wikinger-Zeitalter: During the day (and sometimes the night) I teach … Weiterlesen
Masculinities in Old Norse LiteratureCompared to other areas of medieval literature, the question of masculinity in Old Norse-Icelandic literature has been understudied. This is a neglect which this volume aims to rectify. The essays collected here introduce and analyse a … Weiterlesen
„In this episode from Norse legends, we’ll see that the worst breakups involve Thor breaking up the couple with his hammer and we’ll see that even though Odin can shapeshift, that doesn’t mean he skips the conditioner. It’s the Saga … Weiterlesen
A critical companion to Old Norse literary genreWe cannot read literary works without making use of the concept of genre. In Old Norse studies, genre has been central to the categorisation, evaluation and understanding of medieval prose and poetry alike; … Weiterlesen
Moving Words in the Nordic Middle Ages: Tracing Literacies, Texts, and Verbal CommunitiesThe culmination of over a decade’s research on verbal culture in the pre- and post-Conversion medieval North at Bergen’s Centre for Medieval Studies, this volume traces the movement … Weiterlesen
Passives and Middles in Mainland Scandinavian: Microvariation Through ExponencyThis monograph explores the properties of passive and middle voice constructions in Norwegian and Swedish, concentrating on the linguistic variation related to these two constructions in Mainland Scandinavian. At an empirical level, … Weiterlesen